B is for business hotel

By Zsarlene B. Chua ASIDE FROMthe multitude of restaurants, bars and other entertainment places, the Scouts area of Quezon city (which includes the streets of...

Intro to Francisco Arcellana’s columns from the Pacific War

By Juaniyo E.Y. Arcellana THIS MUST BE one of the hardest things, having to write the introduction to this collection of column pieces, book introductions, essays...

Your weekend guide

October 9-October 16, 2015 EVENTS The OK Bikol Association, Inc., and the regional offices of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Tourism,...

Big gulp: feeding strategy of blue whales revealed

WASHINGTON — The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it...

What to see this week

2 films to see on the week of October 9-16, 2015 Love Live: The School Idol Movie A JAPANESE animated feature about a high school girl...

Proposals and presentations

Getting The Edge In Professional Selling By Terence A. Hockenhull LIKE MANY SALES MANAGERS, I am scurrying around trying to scrape together some additional sales to...

Anti-malaria drug artemisinin

PARIS — A frontline drug in the fight against malaria, artemisinin has a history going back many centuries, for it traces its past to...

Mother of Dragons

Dragon boat racing, a watersport that evolved from ancient Chinese rituals, is alive and well in the Philippines. Of the 20 teams under the...

The road less taken

“We’ll be bold enough to say that we had a lot to do with popularizing outdoor sports in the Philippines. We promoted the category,...

Iowa girls

For nearly a century, girls’ high school basketball was the number one spectator sport in the state of Iowa, captivating fans and making heroes...

Game, set, match

Some of Jean Henri Lhuillier's business philosophies came from playing tennis. “In business you have to have discipline. To get better, you have to...

Winning the big one (almost)

As it is in life, so it is in poker: those with little to lose will risk a lot. Butch Dalisay says that the key...